This is like Final Destination. extremely bizzare.

Yesterday, i was riding back from a beach nearby on NH17 and i was riding on the newly inaugurated flyover here. Local buses are pretty slow on the flyover for some unknown reason(they usually are speed demons otherwise) and me and two of my friends decided to overtake a bus from the right. To our surprise there was a police fence/barricade placed right at the exit of the flyover(the flyover being pretty much narrow) and if not for a quick stomp on the brake pedal who knows what wouldve happened. It was pretty dark at 7ish and there was absolutely no light/reflector indicating that fence/barricade.

+1. That's exactly what I'd thought too!!!

I really don't get this concept... How can a hospital deny someone admission? It is absolutely ridiculous!!! Something really needs to be done about such institutions... There is sheer apathy here, human life clearly has no value in the eyes of such people...

Even it were present it would do no good. In trauma medicine the first 20 minutes is considered crucial for the survival of the victim. We don't value life. The traffic is utter chaos and anarchy reins supreme!!! No one stops for red signals, no one believes in traffic rules unless there is a traffic constable standing somewhere nearby. Leave alone 20 minutes, the poor chap will not have received any medical attention for more than an hour. Believe me, I know how much time it takes to reach Cooper hospital from Vile Parle Highway junction. I experience it every day.

Aargee: when the Supreme Court passes a Judgement it is a law! There is no need to pass a law for the same. In fact it is binding on the government to amend existing laws to confirm to the letter of the judgement.

I know where this happened and I have been driving on that stretch perpetually every day. Sends shudders down my spine knowing about this freak incident!

What I wonder though, is where was the victim taken in Jogeshwari and why take him all the way to Cooper in the mad evening traffic :S!

exactly, if the so called pvt. hospitals lacks the facilities required to treat such a case, its better to get going. but yes after a first -aid.

in my case, when i had that life threatening accident. i was taken immediately to our small hospital, where they did first-aid, some bandages, some supports here and there, a few pain killers, checked if i was bleeding from somewhere- internally or externally, took whole body x-ray, all this in say 15-20 mins and immediately dispatched to "sancheti hospital" in pune which is good 1.5 hours away from this place and also sent a nurse along, just in case.... in a fully equipped ambulance (with all life saving equipments on board) and while the ambulance was on the way to hospital, local doctors called up sancheti hospital and informed them that such a case is on the way, so the doctors at sancheti hospital were ready when i reached there.

i think there can't be a better approach.


ya here in pune also i can see some police vans and ambulances at accident prone spots.

well....all big hospitals are now accepting accident victims without asking anything ...but yes the same cant be said about small clinics and nursing homes.

there is nothing as in 'not fit' medical outlets!!
any clinics or hospitals with a basic trained nurse or doctor can easily handle the preliminary of severe bleeding.
from the context given i believe it must be a cut to the blood vessels in the neck and just applying pressure over the bleeding point would have saved him till he was taken to a bigger facility.
blindly turning away such needed victims is a 'professional negligence' and must be dealt with severely!!

and the over head wires must be checked periodically by the authorities.i dont see what else they have to do!!after all they arnt burning their heads trying to bring new technology !!

PS: doctors are asked to fill in 'wound certificates' when injured people come in at casualties and that's why they ask an umpteen number of questions about what happened.
but these are not usually done in a way that risks or cause severity in an already critical victim!!

First of all a megapolis has no business having unregulated overhead wires within its limits. Nowhere in the developed nations will you find overhead wires within city limits. The issue here is that there are no underground construction standards and hence there is no regulation to control wiring and ducting. This has led to uncontrolled and haphazard wiring through out the city. Cable operators pull wire from one building to another across the highway... ... Telecom operators do last mile connection to building by pulling a direct wire from the nearest pole... all potential hazards... In this case it was a metal wire, which means it was most probably an electricity transmission wire running across the highway... take a moment to look up and around your city, you will find it a nightmare of cables running from one building's terrace to another building's terrace.

If that's true, then its a good thing.

I said that because, the judgement came in 2007, and my accident happened in 2010... And the Hospital was J.L.N. Government Hospital, Ajmer which is definitely not a small clinic or nursing home. Still... something or the other from their side delayed my treatment by about an hour or so.

i heard some where from my local news paper.. that a accidental case that comes in a hospital should be treated by the same hospital.

Didn't the judgement come way back in 1989 ?

there are definitely a lot of "not fit" hospitals which lack basic infrastructure, trained staff and doctors. just look around or visit some hospitals.

i was saying that based on my experiences here in pune/mumbai region.

I don't know what judgement came in 1989, but the Honorable SC made a statement on a case sometime in 2007, and since then it was called "Right to Emergency Care" and it was for every human being, irrespective of whether that person is a criminal, poor, or anything.

See this extract from the article:
But of course, Police can trouble them (doctor, medical authorities, etc.) if a criminal person is treated and escapes later on.


@ Prince: I understand. Mumbai and Pune are the high awareness areas compared to small cities so its apparent.

Not sure about other places, but local news channels in AP keep showing clips of doctors being physically beaten up by relatives/friends of patients who die under their care with an alarming regularity. Wether the doctor is at fault is not known, so I am not surprised with the reaction of the doctor at the first hospital. But the sad part in our country is that anyone and everyone keeps blaming the authorities for everything, but forget their own responsibility.